In the wider area of Alexandroupolis, several settlements were evacuated yesterday, while Coast Guard vessels freed 40 people, who were transported to the port of the city.
Evros is under fire for the fifth day. There are two fronts of the fire, the one in the forest of Dadia and the front in the city of Alexandroupoli which has now started and moves towards the Rhodopes.
In the wider area of Alexandroupolis, several settlements were evacuated yesterday, while Coast Guard vessels freed 40 people, who were transported to the port of the city.
Shortly before 11 last night, both lanes of Egnatia Road, between Komotini and Alexandroupoli, which remained closed due to the fires in the wider area, were opened to traffic.
Trucks, tourist buses and passenger cars had been immobilized for many hours.
Today the winds may be weaker but always regulating the intensity, course and speed of the fire’s spread.
With the ground firefighting forces unabated, seven aerial vehicles – and the fire extinguishing operational plan prioritizing human life, property and the forest -, attempts have been made since the morning to tame and extinguish its fiery fronts Nannyher Meliasher Leptokaryas and her Sycorrachis.
Following the progress of the front which is still burning in Nanny for the third day, the forest services of the prefecture, in relation to the northeast winds blowing in the area, driving the fire southwest and as soon as it meets a gully creating fronts with geometric progression, they estimate that if the Dadia fire, which is further north, does not end, it will not let southern Evros calm down, as they typically say in APE-MPE.
They cite as an illustrative example the settlement of Melia, where – while the fire that broke out there the previous Saturday has been extinguished – it is threatened again by the fire that descends from Dadia and has already approached it.
Also, the settlements of Avanda, Nipsa and Dorikos were threatened in the previous days by both the Melia and Dadia fires, with the latter threatening Avanda again if it moves southwest due to the northeast winds.
The ground forces operating today are 220 firefighters with 59 vehicles, 11 infantry teams, two firefighting aircraft and five firefighting helicopters.
Source: Skai
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